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Alienation (Social psychology) Fiction American essays 20th century American fiction 20th century American literature 20th century American literature California Los Angeles Didion, Joan Criticism and interpretation Drug addicts Fiction Drug withdrawal symptoms Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Literary collections Recovering addicts FictionDidion, Joan
Summary: This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather here are Salvador, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDContents: From Echoes in the city of the angels / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The land / Mary Austin -- from The rules of the game / Stewart Edward White -- from Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913 / Harris Newmark -- California and America / Vachel Lindsay -- from Laughing in the jungle / Louis Adamic -- Los Angeles. A rhapsody / Aldous Huxley -- Sister Aimée / H.L. Mencken -- from Oil! / Upton...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 WRIDidion, Joan
Summary: "Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009